Population
3400 patients with essential hypertension receiving antihypertensive treatment, mean age 66 years, 45% male…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Observed discordance in treated hypertension supports out-of-office monitoring studies; leaves open whether targeting isolated phenotypes improves outcomes.
A significant proportion of treated hypertensive patients exhibit isolated uncontrolled home or office hypertension, highlighting the importance of out-of-office blood pressure monitoring.
Obara et al. (2005) studied this question.
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